Chapter Summaries

Fang Xuan gave Feng Taicang the Six Yang Fire Dragon Mirror and took him as a disciple, then met the famously fortunate Jun Niansheng. After Jun left, Fang Xuan considered seeking a Nether God Sect divine ability that could damage a person’s fortune.

• Fang Xuan bestowed the Six Yang Fire Dragon Mirror on Feng Taicang and told him to cultivate by his side until he reached the Divine Ability Realm.
• Jun Niansheng arrived, and Fang Xuan chose to meet the Child of Destiny despite Feng Taicang’s jealousy of his immense fortune.
• Jun Niansheng learned that Feng Taicang had left the demonic path and joined Fang Xuan’s Immortal Feather Sect, then departed without conflict.
• Feng Taicang urged Fang Xuan to seize Jun Niansheng’s many treasures, but Fang Xuan declined and thought about obtaining the Nether King’s fortune-damaging divine ability.

Fang Xuan traveled to the Northern Dark Sea with Feng Taicang, who broke through to the Divine Strength Realm while training. As they explored the sea, they encountered a battered Great Zhou Steel Ship crewed by Ancient Alliance members.

• Feng Taicang reached the Divine Strength Realm while practicing the Eternal Life body's cultivation under Fang Xuan's guidance.
• Fang Xuan and Feng Taicang arrived at the Northern Dark Sea, where Feng Taicang described the distant Dark Wilderness and the Whale Split Sea Great Emperor.
• Fang Xuan steered the Nine Flood Dragon Throne into the shadowed sea and spotted massive sea creatures swimming below.
• A weathered Great Zhou Steel Ship broke through the ice, smashing icebergs and sea beasts as it advanced.
• Fang Xuan recognized the emblem of the Ancient Alliance aboard the ship and hid the conspicuous Nine Flood Dragon Throne in the Five Prisons King Cauldron.

Fang Xuan and Feng Taicang tracked the Ancient Alliance across the frozen northern sea to Black Flame Cave. Fang Xuan killed Black Flame Old Ancestor in a single exchange and entered the cave.

• Fang Xuan explained that the Ancient Alliance sought to overthrow Great Zhou and followed its ship while concealed by the Heaven Concealing Star Escape Technique.
• Fang Xuan and Feng Taicang watched the alliance hunt sea beasts and fight the Dark People during their ten-day voyage.
• Fang Xuan recognized the returning ship’s destination as Black Flame Cave and confronted Black Flame Old Ancestor.
• Black Flame Old Ancestor attacked Fang Xuan with a storm of wind and snow, and Feng Taicang warned that he was a seventh-grade Heaven Rush expert.
• Fang Xuan joined the Ri Yue Essence Wheel and killed Black Flame Old Ancestor, then entered Black Flame Cave.

Fang Xuan entered Black Flame Old Ancestor's Pan Yang Palace and discovered a vast collection of Ancient Evil Weapons, including the sentient legendary blade Myriad Ages All Empty. He confronted the blade's defiant artifact spirit and prepared to claim it.

• Fang Xuan used the Wishful Escape Technique to bypass Pan Yang Palace's restrictions and enter the sealed chamber.
• Fang Xuan collected the palace's pearls, ores, and treasures, while Feng Taicang identified the heaps of rusted weapons as Ancient Evil Weapons.
• Fang Xuan explained that the weapons could be purified and refined into treasure-grade magical artifacts for the Yuhua Sect.
• Fang Xuan approached a blood-red blade and awakened its artifact spirit, which demanded to know how he had found it.
• Fang Xuan named the blade Myriad Ages All Empty and ordered it to follow him, while Feng Taicang recognized it as one of the three strongest evil blades of the ancient era.

Fang Xuan used the Great Salvation Zen Light to convert Myriad Ages are Empty and learned that it could lead him to hidden treasures. He then helped Feng Taicang advance toward the Mystic Divine Realm with a Thunder Bone Relic.

• Fang Xuan drew Myriad Ages are Empty into the Eightfold Pagoda and joined the heavenly devils in chanting scriptures to convert its artifact spirit over seven days and nights.
• Myriad Ages are Empty became Fang Xuan's devoted servant and agreed to take him to buried treasures.
• Fang Xuan showed Feng Taicang that the evil blade could fracture space, then agreed to let him remain and cultivate.
• Fang Xuan gave Feng Taicang a Thunder Bone Relic, which transformed his bones as he advanced into the Mystic Divine Realm.
• Fang Xuan released the true qi sealed in Feng Taicang's dantian and instructed him to refine it into astral force.

Feng Taicang advanced to the Aura Realm after absorbing his Martial Dao True Qi, and Fang Xuan sent him to stabilize his cultivation. Beneath the Northern Sea, Fang Xuan killed one ferocious beast, captured nearly a thousand more in his king cauldron, then sensed hidden martial artists probing him and decided to leave.

• Feng Taicang transformed his mana into Daoist Aura, reached three thousand Profound Yellow Steed Strength, and stored his remaining Martial Dao True Qi in his dantian.
• Fang Xuan advised Feng Taicang to stabilize his realm, refine the remaining true qi, and cultivate the Instant Kill Great Art before sending him into the Five Prisons King Cauldron.
• Fang Xuan traveled beneath the Northern Sea and killed a gigantic Northern Sea Ferocious Beast that attacked him with spatial devouring.
• Fang Xuan used the Five Prisons King Cauldron to capture nearly a thousand Northern Sea Ferocious Beasts drawn by the first beast's blood.
• Fang Xuan sensed numerous hidden martial artists probing him and chose to leave the seabed to avoid provoking them.

Fang Xuan reached an ancient sect’s hidden world in the Northern Sea, where the monk Azhantuo mistook him for the Buddhist successor he had awaited. Fang Xuan tried to convince Azhantuo that his destined visitor had not arrived, but Azhantuo’s failed calculations sent him into a dangerous, disordered state.

• Fang Xuan used Myriad Ages are Empty to reach a hidden world buried within the Northern Sea’s fragmented spaces.
• Fang Xuan found a sunlit world filled with mountains and enormous beasts, then encountered a Buddhist barrier and the monk Azhantuo.
• Azhantuo called Fang Xuan his destined visitor and offered him a Buddhist opportunity, but Fang Xuan said Azhantuo had mistaken him for someone else.
• Fang Xuan revealed that Azhantuo was waiting for Fang Yun and claimed his own status as Sect Master of the Immortal Feather Sect prevented Azhantuo from calculating his fate.
• Azhantuo’s attempts to calculate Fang Xuan produced only blankness, and his aura became disordered as Myriad Ages are Empty suspected he was falling into demonic deviation.

Fang Xuan defeated Azhantuo, who had mistaken him for the Buddhist Sect’s destined one, and examined the Nirvana Ancient Scripture. The scripture and the Five Elements Spirit Talisman awakened powerful Buddhist mystical powers in Fang Xuan’s Golden Core, while Azhantuo realized the destined one had yet to arrive.

• Azhantuo attacked Fang Xuan, believing the evil weapon had misled him, but Fang Xuan overpowered him with the Heavenly Astral Life Extinguishing Hand and Great Cutting Technique.
• After Fang Xuan warned him, Azhantuo regained his clarity and accepted that he had mistaken Fang Xuan for the destined one, who would arrive later carrying Buddha Slaughter.
• Azhantuo gave Fang Xuan the Nirvana Ancient Scripture and his own Sanskrit translation, explaining the effort and sacrifice involved in producing it.
• The Eightfold Pagoda emerged when the scripture shone, and its Buddhist light caused the Five Elements Spirit Talisman to change.
• The Five Elements Spirit Talisman sent Buddhist martial arts into Fang Xuan’s Golden Core, where they became powerful mystical abilities.

Fang Xuan discovered an ancient sect’s hidden treasure and claimed the Tai Cang Divine Cauldron, a Low Grade Dao Item containing powerful pills and a pill-refining formula. He focused on two Tai Hao Pills that might elevate a supreme technique to great perfection, and wondered whether they could improve divine abilities.

• Myriad Ages are Empty guided Fang Xuan to a concealed restriction buried three hundred li underground, and Fang Xuan passed through it with the Wishful Escape Technique.
• Myriad Ages are Empty explained how ancient experts had died fighting over the sect’s Three Aspects Magic Item and why the treasure had remained hidden.
• Fang Xuan crossed the corpse-filled hall without triggering its restrictions and reached the enormous bronze cauldron.
• Fang Xuan shattered the cauldron’s weakened restrictions, claimed the Tai Cang Divine Cauldron, and received its innate imprint and Tai Cang Divine Pill formula.
• Fang Xuan found twelve mid-grade divine pills inside and wondered whether the two Tai Hao Pills could elevate his divine abilities.

After refining the Tai Cang Divine Cauldron, Fang Xuan discovered a Space Corridor leading to the primordial Ancient Small World and sent his companions to search for its treasures. Feng Taicang found a field of meteors refined into pure stellar essence and began collecting them.

• Fang Xuan refined the Tai Cang Divine Cauldron, which triggered a vortex and revealed a Space Corridor to the Ancient Small World.
• Fang Xuan entered the corridor, explored the ancient realm, and summoned Peacock King, Feng Taicang, and Immortal Slayer Bandit to search for treasures.
• Feng Taicang followed immense wheel tracks through a devastated landscape and found a vast field of charred meteors.
• Feng Taicang sensed that the meteors contained stellar essence far denser than Extraterrestrial Star Refined Iron and collected them with the Five Prisons King Cauldron.

The Peacock King found a shattered Bronze Long Halberd fused with the surrounding earth and had the Five Prisons Old Man absorb the weapon and an entire mountain into the Five Prisons King Cauldron. Meanwhile, Fang Xuan took a Tai Hao Pill and advanced his Azure Dragon Eight Forms, learning that the pill could not replace the special resources many mystical powers required.

• The Peacock King collected ancient weapon fragments and discovered they had broken off from a Bronze Long Halberd embedded in a valley.
• The Peacock King could not pull out the halberd or damage the ground around it, so he asked the Five Prisons Old Man for help.
• The Five Prisons Old Man found that the halberd had fused with the earth and absorbed it along with the entire mountain into the Five Prisons King Cauldron.
• Fang Xuan swallowed a Tai Hao Pill, whose medicinal power raised his Azure Dragon Eight Forms to major accomplishment and brought it close to completion.
• Fang Xuan realized the Tai Hao Pill could improve mystical powers that needed no special resources, but could not supply materials such as Geng Metal Qi, starlight, or the power of space.

Fang Xuan and his companions passed through the Bronze Sword restriction and reached an altar bearing carvings of an Ancient Demon God’s defeat and the Three Emperors’ seal. They entered the labyrinth beneath it, where spiritual power was absorbed by the walls, and the Peacock King prepared to test them.

• Fang Xuan condensed a Tai Hao Pill from the Pill Qi he had stored.
• The Immortal Slayer Bandit, Fang Xuan, the Peacock King, and Feng Taicang entered the azure restriction and fought their way through its sword curtains with the Five Prisons King Cauldron.
• The group reached the Bronze Altar, examined its carvings, and understood that the Three Emperors had suppressed an Ancient Demon God there.
• Fang Xuan led the others into a pitch-black passage beneath the altar, which transported them to a labyrinth made of spatial walls.
• Feng Taicang’s Divine Sense was burned away by the walls, and the Peacock King gathered mana to test one with a sword qi strike.

Fang Xuan led the group through a Space Labyrinth into an ancient bronze hall, where they defeated its golden guardians. They discovered the hall was built from priceless spiritual materials and began dismantling it for the Five Prisons King Cauldron.

• The Peacock King’s sword beam vanished into the labyrinth wall and reappeared behind him, revealing that attacks were reversed onto their sender.
• Fang Xuan recognized the labyrinth’s Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams foundation and led the group through a spatial wall into a bronze hall.
• Eight golden statues awakened and wielded longswords to attack the group, but the Immortal Slayer Bandit destroyed them with her World Cleansing Lotus.
• Fang Xuan examined the shattered statues and sent the Eighteen Arhats Puppets to dismantle the altar and load its materials into the Five Prisons King Cauldron.
• Feng Taicang identified the altar’s stones as rare treasures used to refine Heavenly Yuan Magic Items and marveled that they had served as decorations.

Fang Xuan and his companions dismantled the underground altar and discovered the Three Emperors' Imperial Decree behind a guarded bronze gate. A Primordial Giant puppet attacked them, but the Immortal Slayer Bandit destroyed it with her sword qi.

• Feng Taicang and the Eighteen Bronze Men puppets dismantled the altar and stored its materials in the Five Prisons King Cauldron.
• Fang Xuan found a hidden passage that led to an underground chamber containing a bronze gate and a yellow scroll Feng Taicang recognized as the Three Emperors' Imperial Decree.
• A massive axe flew from the gate toward Feng Taicang, but the Peacock King intercepted it with a punch.
• A Primordial Giant puppet emerged and attacked the group with its axe and an azure thunderball.
• The Immortal Slayer Bandit fought the Primordial Giant and ultimately pierced it with sword qi, blasting it into pieces.

Fang Xuan entered the immense blue ocean beyond the azure gateway and absorbed the Primordial Giant’s golden essence blood, transforming his body so the ocean’s crushing pressure could no longer harm him. He traveled toward the ocean’s center, where he found an ancient Demon God bound by four enormous bronze chains.

• Fang Xuan seized the Primordial Giant’s golden essence blood while Feng Taicang and the Peacock King retrieved the ritual vessels, arrows, and Three Emperors' Imperial Decree.
• Fang Xuan passed through the azure gateway and found himself in a dense ocean whose pressure eroded his mana and threatened his body.
• Fang Xuan swallowed the golden essence blood, whose Demon God Blood Energy strengthened and transformed his body.
• Fang Xuan tested his new strength, found that he could withstand the ocean’s pressure, and sped toward its center.
• Fang Xuan reached a dark mountain range suspended within the ocean and saw an ancient Demon God bound by four bronze chains.

Fang Xuan confronted the sealed ancient demon god Heavenly God Jubi in the Primitive Sea Ridge, where Jubi attacked him despite being bound by the Three Emperors Lock-Shape Chains. Fang Xuan resisted Jubi’s attacks and revealed something that delighted the demon god, leaving their encounter poised to continue.

• Fang Xuan recognized the sealed Heavenly God Jubi, whose chains had been laid by Fu Xi, Shen Nong, and Xuanyuan.
• Heavenly God Jubi awoke, cursed the Three Emperors, and struck at Fang Xuan with a colossal axe.
• Fang Xuan summoned the Sun Moon Crystal Wheels to block Jubi’s axe and shattered Jubi’s enormous seawater hand with the Great Collapse Art.
• Heavenly God Jubi formed a smaller demon god body and unleashed his Divine Power against Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan praised Jubi’s strength and showed him something, saying he had come to the right place.

Fang Xuan used the Three Emperors' Imperial Decree, the Eightfold Pagoda, and the Great Salvation Technique to subdue the Ancient Demon God Heavenly God Jubi. After two days, Fang Xuan used the Great Fate Technique to break Jubi's resistance and brought him into the Eightfold Pagoda.

• The Three Emperors' Imperial Decree suppressed Heavenly God Jubi, and Fang Xuan tried to convert him with the Great Salvation Zen Light and the Eightfold Pagoda.
• Heavenly God Jubi repeatedly resisted conversion, while Fang Xuan spent two days exhausting him and feeding the heavenly devils until their numbers and Wish Power grew.
• Fang Xuan used the Great Fate Technique to make Heavenly God Jubi believe that his fate was to submit, breaking through his final mental defense.
• Heavenly God Jubi pledged himself to Fang Xuan, who drew him into the Eightfold Pagoda.
• Heavenly God Jubi's Wish Power and Cosmic Origin Energy nourished the heavenly devils throughout the Eightfold Pagoda.

After leaving the Ancient Small World with valuable treasures and Heavenly God Jubi, Fang Xuan returned to the North Sea and encountered Ye Kailong, the Sea God. He ordered the Immortal Slayer Bandit to subdue the dragon without damaging his armor body, and the battle began.

• Fang Xuan and his companions left the Ancient Small World, carrying their spoils back through the Medieval Small World to the North Sea.
• Fang Xuan discovered Ye Kailong attacking them beneath the North Sea, and recognized him as the Sea God worshipped by the sea clans.
• Fang Xuan told the Immortal Slayer Bandit to capture Ye Kailong without damaging his armor body, which Fang Xuan intended to use.
• Ye Kailong transformed into a thousand-mile giant and unleashed Heaven and Earth Tide Thunder against the Immortal Slayer Bandit.
• The Immortal Slayer Bandit repelled Ye Kailong with powerful strikes, astonishing Feng Taicang.

Ye Kailong revealed his Nether Dragon bloodline and fought the Immortal Slayer Bandit, but she overwhelmed him with the World Cleansing Lotus. Fang Xuan made the wounded dragon submit and drew him into the Eightfold Pagoda, where the Blood Buddha’s power terrified him.

• Ye Kailong summoned a true dragon fate constellation and transformed with the power of the Nether Dragon.
• The Immortal Slayer Bandit overpowered Ye Kailong’s attacks, then wounded him with the World Cleansing Lotus.
• Fang Xuan offered to help Ye Kailong become a true dragon if he submitted, and Ye Kailong agreed rather than die.
• Fang Xuan drew Ye Kailong into the Eightfold Pagoda, where the Blood Buddha’s golden light and chants suppressed him.

Fang Xuan learned that Fang Yun had become the Great Zhou Dynasty’s youngest general and sent allies to protect him and take revenge on his enemies. Meanwhile, Yang Hong arrived in Upper Capital City to be invested as the eighth Martial Marquis, leaving the Fang family’s feud with him on the verge of intensifying.

• Fang Xuan absorbed the Future Lord’s memories and learned of Fang Yun’s recent trials, battlefield service, and appointment as the youngest general.
• Fang Xuan sent the Peacock King and Immortal Slayer Bandit to the capital to avenge Fang Yun and destroy the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• Fang Xuan ordered Feng Taicang to return to the Beginning Demon Sect and pondered the Heaven and Earth Dharma Image he might form.
• Fang Xuan planned to advance through the Mystic Divine Realm and reach the Eternal Life Realm before Hua Tiandu.
• Generals, princes, and marquises gathered in Upper Capital City for Yang Hong’s investiture as the eighth Martial Marquis, while rumors spread that he would target the Fang family.